Olympia J. Snowe

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 2 - 8, 2014 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES MasterChef Junior Alexander Weiss, who won the first season of this spin-off competition, greets 16 young chefs with "mystery box" of his favorite ingredients to use in their own recipes in the season premiere of this cooking competition. 8 p.m. Fox 30 for 30 Cuban half-brothers became major league pitchers. 8 p.m. ESPN2 Supernatural The actors, writers and producers celebrate the 10th season in this retrospective episode. 9 p.m. KTLA Makers Hillary...

During my seven years as a reporter in the nation's capital, I came to love and hate election campaigns in equal measure. I love the policy debates they tee up for voters, but I hate how those issues get lost in the cacophony of personal attacks and...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) says she wrote her new book to encourage more women to raise their voices in the workplace and get involved in politics.
But it has been the book's passages about sexist and otherwise inappropriate remarks allegedly...

You might have thought, listening to the general political discourse, that the Affordable Care Act is the single greatest economic threat foisted on us by Congress in recent years.
Silly you. The real threat comes from the Dodd-Frank Act, the 2010...

Last week, the White House issued a new and alarming edition of its national report on climate change. How did leading Republicans respond?
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the GOP's leader in the Senate, scoffed at President Obama for "talking about...

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee clashed Wednesday with CIA Director John Brennan over his response to a classified committee report on CIA interrogations a decade ago that included water-boarding.
At a hearing to explore...

Re "No way to run a country," Opinion, Oct. 8
The commitment by former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) to restore bipartisanship in politics is commendable. Sadly, her goal of rewarding lawmakers who strive for common ground and penalizing those...

Going into Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral argument, supporters of limits on campaign contributions were afraid, very afraid, that a majority of the court would signal that it was ready to declare them unconstitutional. Based on questions and comments from...

I purchased my copy of the 2014 Almanac of American Politics (only $90) Tuesday and immediately started browsing through the profiles of members of Congress. As always, I found myself focusing on the religion of the senators and representatives, a...

This is the first year in more than four decades that I haven't been in the legislative branch of government. During that span, I've witnessed government's greatest potential as well as its calamitous capacity for dysfunction. Unfortunately, the latter is...

WASHINGTON — Democrats retained a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, but Republicans kept their grip on the House, delivering another divided, and highly polarized, Congress.
The balance of power was likely to shift by no more than a seat or...

This post has been corrected as indicated below. You’d think a handsome guy like Mitt Romney would not have a problem with the ladies, but his poll numbers show something different. In the 12 swing states that will determine whether he goes to the White...

After days of parlor intrigue, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey has changed course and will now enter the race to recapture his old Senate seat, according to a Democratic source in the state.Kerrey was widely considered to be a front-runner as Democrats...

Olympia Snowe, one of the Senate's few remaining moderate Republicans, announced Tuesday that she will not seek a fourth term in 2012.The 65-year-old, who had also served in the House for eight terms, said she came to the decision in part after reflecting...

The Senate roundly rejected the House GOP budget on Wednesday, with five Republicans joining most Democrats in shooting down the proposal to dramatically alter Medicare that has rattled the Republican Party. The 40-57 vote essentially ends the...